Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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